June bookshelf

So, I have decided to try and almost force myself to get back to reading because after having so much academic literature to go through my desire to sit and fall into a written plotline has all but disappeared. Thus, my idea to ‘create’ a type of reading list of books I hope to read throughout the month.

This month I have decided to keep it to only two books as we are already one week into June, and I want to almost break myself into it.

The top of my list is The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. I have had this book for months now, probably before Christmas. It is my boyfriends and I just need to read it. I have no doubt that when I properly start this book I will be unable to put it down. I have a week to read this book before my boyfriend comes down to see me so the pressures on haha!

And the second book for this month is Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn. I bought this for the flight out to New York but as the in-flights entertainment system had more than enough choice I didn’t have time to start it (and the holiday was itself so jam-packed that I was either sleeping or exploring). I know I am very late to the Gone Girl party as it where, but I can assure everyone that I know no spoilers (this makes a pleasant change) and have very little clue as to the plot.

Summer is always the time I start reading more, I hope this is true of this summer as well. I also need to start cracking on with Game of Thrones as I have only read the first one, but as they are hard going books I feel that they will be saved until I have some of the ‘shorter’ books read off of my bookshelf.

What are your reading/have read this month? Have you read either the Book Thief or Gone Girl? Any recommendations for me?

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Life Update: Why I have been absent from this blog

I guess I should explain my absence from this blog for the past two weeks (three weeks of not writing) but I just didn’t feel like writing anything. Do you ever experience that feeling, like whatever you write and the pictures you take will never be good enough so what is the point in trying. This has been my sad state of my for the past week (the week prior to that I was to jetlagged to even keep my eyes open let alone tend to this blog) but sometimes I think its good to catch my breath and start fresh.

I guess the ‘lost’ feeling I had consuming my every though last week was only natural as I am experiencing many changes in my life, i.e. finishing my undergraduate degree, moving home, then moving with my parents out of my childhood home later this summer, finding a job. All these changes and I still have yet to decide exactly what I want to do with my life.

However, it would have been all too easy to wallow in my sorry state and never try to drag myself out (like I have done previously) but I decided to do my absolute best, come Monday, to wake up and attempt to attain my much better attitude that I was developing throughout the previous week, and I can happily report so far so good.

I guess finding your inner happiness and peace with life is a working progress and (unfortunately) is not a case of waking up one morning and you are where you want to be.

So, all that aside, what exactly have I done in the past three weeks apart from sit around and think (apparently) well I went to New York, drove to Stoke to pick up my last few bits at university, then to Wolverhampton to see my boyfriend (I drove 300 miles that weekend, not bad ey?), started doing yoga and got back on my bike after three years.

I feel as though my passion for blogging has been reborn and I have got so many ideas for new and exciting posts, including my trip to New York of course, so watch this space!

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